Deutsch: «Jurakalk» Français: «Calcaire du Jura» Italiano: «Calcare del Giura» English: «Limestone of the Jura Mountains»
Terme générique et donc peu précis désignant les calcaires de la chaîne du Jura. Les plus maquants morphologiquement sont des calcaires compacts en gros bancs à patine claire formant de hautes parois ou des dalles lapiazées.
The Pliocene is the last geochronologic epoch of the Neogene, starting with the Zanclean age (at the transition from the Miocene epoch) and ending with the Piacenzian age (at the transition to the Pleistocene epoch).
The Miocene is the first geochronologic epoch of the Neogene, starting with the Aquitanian age (at the transition from the Oligocene epoch) and ending with the Messinian age (at the transition to the Pliocene epoch).
The Oligocene is the last geochronologic epoch of the Paleogene, starting with the Rupelian age (at the transition from the Eocene epoch) and ending with the Chattian age (at the transition to the Miocene epoch).
oligos = peu , kaïno = récent
--- (Beyrich 1854), Oliocène (Denizot et al. 1957), Oligocän, Oligocaen
The “Upper Prealps” is a complex of four nappes composed of flysch deposits originiating from the Piemonte-Liguria Ocean. It is located structurally on top of both the Préalpes Médianes Nappe and the Breccia Nappe.
Deutsch: «Lucomagno-Einheit» Français: «Unité du Lukmanier» Italiano: «Unità del Lucomagno» English: «Lucomagno Unit»
The Lucomagno Unit corresponds to the upper part of the Leventina-Lucomagno Nappe (Eastern Lepontic) forming a pre-Alpine sedimentary shell above the Leventina orthogneisses (“Leventina Unit”) and further deformed during the Alpine orogeny.
Über Lithostratigraphisches Lexikon der Schweiz Das Lithostratigraphische Lexikon wurde als Nachschlagewerk für Geologinnen und Geologen konzipiert, um einen raschen Überblick über die schweizweit geb
